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Design is how things behave and feelMon, 11 Dec 2017 23:23:51 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://akshaykhandalkar.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/cropped-cropped-addylabs-logo1.jpg?w=32The Designer's point of viewhttps://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com
3232All Assigments – Date wise Collection + important links from GNIDFD Group.https://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/all-assigments-datewise-collection-important-links-from-gnidfd-group/
https://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/all-assigments-datewise-collection-important-links-from-gnidfd-group/#commentsFri, 01 Dec 2017 19:29:12 +0000http://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/?p=1757Continue reading All Assigments – Date wise Collection + important links from GNIDFD Group.]]>So, this is going to be an all assignments page for the days and years to come, all my posts and important links will be shared here as well as on the GNID FUTURE DESIGNERS- FACEBOOK GROUP.

November 21, 2017

Guys, It’s been long, we haven’t done any new assignments. let’s start with some redesign exercises.

1) bags for trekking, school kids, Amazon delivery boys.
2) toys for 2-5-year-old kids.
3) board games for 60+-year-old retired people.
4) mobile apps for teaching basic tech to oldies, like to use WhatsApp video.
5) ideas to easily clean and organize your room.
6) teaching reverse/ parallel car parking to new drivers.
7) recycling ideas for PET bottles and box packaging.
8) illustrations/posters for promoting book reading.
9) logo re-design of your favourite brand like Ferrari, Apple, MacD, etc.
10) design a new uniform for your school, show the old vs new also do both male and female versions.
11) Draw a face (same person) with 9 different expressions.
12) Draw the following: a person doing bungee jumping, 2 people swimming underwater, a lady boarding a train, a guy washing his car.

NOTE: Think a lot and Google before the attempt, do multiple options and share your best work. 90 minutes for each exercise. attempt all exercises even if it looks boring or tough to you, will review all your work in the next live session, ALL THE BEST

]]>akshaykhandalkarHow can I switch my career from graphic designer to UI/UX designer?https://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/how-can-i-switch-my-career-from-graphic-designer-to-uiux-designer/
https://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/how-can-i-switch-my-career-from-graphic-designer-to-uiux-designer/#commentsMon, 24 Jul 2017 05:01:06 +0000http://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/?p=1589Continue reading How can I switch my career from graphic designer to UI/UX designer?]]>This is simple, do the things UX designers do.

READ, DISCUSS, QUESTION, OBSERVE, and above all start thinking from the USER’S PERSPECTIVE. for example, you like flat minimalistic line icons as a graphic designer but check with common people do they understand icons easily over plain text?

here is a video from my youtube channel to help you start with UX DESIGN.

]]>https://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/how-can-i-switch-my-career-from-graphic-designer-to-uiux-designer/feed/2akshaykhandalkarIt is all about givinghttps://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/it-is-all-about-giving/
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 11:53:37 +0000http://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/?p=1564Continue reading It is all about giving]]>Life is flourishing on this planet because somewhere someone is always giving and fulfilling the needs of another being. Plants give us the oxygen which we convert to carbon dioxide and give them back. males give sperms and females give eggs, a new life comes into existence and gives new hopes to everyone.

Giving has been always so successful everywhere since ages and yet we focus so much on taking only, why the majority of us have scarcity mindset and fear of giving?

]]>akshaykhandalkarFinally, the time has come to Dribbblehttps://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/finally-the-time-has-come-to-dribbble/
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:57:47 +0000http://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/?p=1551]]>Feeling very happy and thankful to be a part of the most respected global community of Visual designers. After waiting for almost 2 years I finally got invited by the CEO himself, Thanks, Zack Onisko

Here is my first shot,

Long way to go, learning graphic design from scratch

]]>akshaykhandalkarHello Dribbble 4-01Inconsistent Ads can cost you brand valuehttps://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/inconsistent-ads-can-cost-you-brand-value/
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:28:00 +0000http://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/?p=1531Continue reading Inconsistent Ads can cost you brand value]]>Check these 2 ads from the same company (KOOVS.COM), may be designed by 2 different people and went live without a quality check.

1. the original ad on the company website.V/S

2. the Youtube homepage banner ad.

Why such a quality difference and change of style between 1 and 2?

The message and typographic impact are lost, contrast and focus are completely diverted on “UNDER” instead of “799” (which was the original idea), why to invest in putting a banner ad on youtube homepage without a good designer’s review, isn’t it a waste of money and overall productivity?

If you make your customers happy, you have a successful business;
If you make your bosses happy, you have a successful career;
If you make your girlfriend or wife and kids happy, you have a successful relationship and marriage.

In any walk of life, your long-term success actually depends on other people’s happiness and this is equally true for big organizations as well.

And when others get what they want, you eventually get what you want.
We may think the world expects an individual to be selfish, but actually, it’s the opposite that works for us in the long run

]]>akshaykhandalkarEducational tools and toys for designershttps://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/2017/06/13/educational-tools-and-toys-for-designers/
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:27:40 +0000http://akshaykhandalkar.wordpress.com/?p=1134Continue reading Educational tools and toys for designers]]>There are some great products/ideas/rules/techniques which we don’t know about in the beginning of our career and it really helps if someone can tell us about the right things at the right time. there are thing we explore/discover/realise during our journey and wish if we had that knowledge earlier in life and we would have done something much better in our career and lives.

So here are some product/tools/toys that i think can really help any designer learn many good things much earlier and faster in his/her career. lets begin,

For improving 3d spatial and visual reasoning skills and understanding motion in geometry and volume + it helps a lot when you want to take a break and play something to change your mood and refresh yourself with new ideas.

Brush Pens

For improving colour sense, lettering and Calligraphy, playing with brush pens is a great exercise and fun especially when you want to write a thank you note for someone

Parallel pens

Calligraphy and Hand lettering is so much in fashion these days, when printout and fonts look boring its a great way to do something new and learn a classic skill for a change.

Alcohol Markers

For improving 3d and 2d rendering skills, alcohol makers are industry standards and a great way to learn about surface, textures, lighting effects and enjoy sketching.

Water based Spray paints are great for colouring 3d models made or wood, plastics, sheet metal or Thermocol/Polystyrene.

TANGRAM

A great toy/game for improving visual reasoning and exploring geometric compositions, these thing can help a lot in logo design exercises.

A nice LED table lamp for product photography, miniature drawing and spot lighting

A good to have tool for grid work which involves drawing many parallel lines, like Hand lettering, calligraphy, logo design, poster design etc.

French curves

a great tool and industry standard for graphics and fashion design students.

Soft Pastels

Another great dry medium to try for quick colouring and rendering techniques, especially helpful for students, easy to use and carry around. good for travel.

Charcoal sticks

Very good dry medium for pencil artist and monochrome lovers. if you master black and white colour is much easier. one of the best tools to study light and tonality.

Fixative Spray

After all the hard work done on these dry medium colours and charcoal, you definitely want to preserve it for long, right ? so this fixative spray is done on the drawings to ensure the colour particles don’t come off by touching and rubbing and the colour are preserved as good as new.

Wacom Cintiq

This is the ultimate digital tool for professionals and this is here just to introduce you to the top end products available in the market for creative professionals. DO NOT BUY THIS ONE UNLESS YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC ARTIST OR PHOTOGRAPHER.

In Hooked, Nir Eyal reveals how successful companies create products people can’t put down – and how you can too

Winner of best Marketing book in 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards 2014

Why do some products capture our attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain things out of sheer habit? Is there an underlying pattern to how technologies hook us?

Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) with the Hook Model – a four-step process that, when embedded into products, subtly encourages customer behaviour. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products bring people back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.

Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder – not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behaviour.

Eyal provides readers with practical insights to create user habits that stick; actionable steps for building products people love; and riveting examples from the iPhone to Twitter, Pinterest and the Bible App.

Nir Eyal spent years in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied, and at times rejected, techniques described in Hooked to motivate and influence users. He has taught courses on applied consumer psychology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and at Fortune 500 companies. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities.

This book introduces the idea of design thinking‚ the collaborative process by which the designer′s sensibilities and methods are employed to match people′s needs not only with what is technically feasible and a viable business strategy. In short‚ design thinking converts need into demand. It′s a human-centered approach to problem solving that helps people and organizations become more innovative and more creative.

Design thinking is not just applicable to so-called creative industries or people who work in the design field. It′s a methodology that has been used by organisations such as Kaiser Permanente to increase the quality of patient care by re−examining the ways that their nurses manage shift change‚ or Kraft to rethink supply chain management. This is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organizations‚ product‚ or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

Service design offers a tangible and effective approach for organizations to employ to better respond to the needs and demands of their customers. The Art of Services Design shows how organizations can employ the creativity of a design approach and connect it to the real issues and needs of people in organizations who need tools to move their businesses forward. This highly visual book is a practical guide on how to respond to the customer experience challenge, by connecting the market factors to the organizational challenge through the lens of the customer.

Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colourful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, as Donald Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating book, which has garnered acclaim everywhere from Scientific American to The New Yorker . Emotional Design articulates the profound influence of the feelings that objects evoke, from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches, to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects of tomorrow.Norman draws on a wealth of examples and the latest scientific insights to present a bold exploration of the objects in our everyday world. Emotional Design will appeal not only to designers and manufacturers but also to managers, psychologists, and general readers who love to think about their stuff.

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic “right-brain” thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t.

Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment–and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that’s already here.

The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can’t resist

Value Proposition Design helps you tackle a core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to succeed.

Using the same stunning visual format as the authors’ global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the “Value Proposition Canvas” a practical tool to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want.

Value Proposition Design is for anyone who has been frustrated by business meetings based on endless conversations, hunches and intuitions, expensive new product launches that blew up, or simply disappointed by the failure of a good idea. The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won’t work. You’ll learn the simple but comprehensive process of designing and testing value propositions, taking the guesswork out of creating products and services that perfectly match customers’ needs and desires.

Practical exercises, illustrations and tools help you immediately improve your product, service, or new business idea. In addition the book gives you exclusive access to an online companion on Strategyzer.com. You will be able to complete interactive exercises, assess your work, learn from peers, and download pdfs, checklists, and more.

Value Proposition Design complements and perfectly integrates with the ”Business Model Canvas” from Business Model Generation, a tool embraced by startups and large corporations such as MasterCard, 3M, Coca Cola, GE, Fujitsu, LEGO, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more.

Value Proposition Design gives you a proven methodology for success, with value propositions that sell, embedded in profitable business models.

Hope these books give you a good perspective of business management side of design.